Joss Whedon is very candid regarding the high expectations for The Avengers. The Sydney Morning Herald recently spoke with The Avengers's director Joss Whedon and discussed working on the project, and everything else that goes along with creating a film that combines so many beloved Marvel characters. "Right now I'm working on a movie that's [...]
Forget "Avatar" and "Step Up 3D": When filmmakers finally master 3-D, it will mark the start of a new art form Is digital 3-D the future of cinema or an annoying, overhyped fad? The movie industry is understandably torn. On one hand, money talks, and some of the biggest hits of the last six months [...]
Music Box Films Vincent Cassel as Jacques Mesrine in “Mesrine: Public Enemy No.1.” Vincent Cassel, the cocky, snake-eyed French actor with a prizefighter’s mug is so charismatic in “Mesrine,” a four-hour biography of the notorious French gangster Jacques Mesrine, that you can’t take your eyes off him. Mr. Cassel’s monumental performance fuses the cobralike menace [...]
Movies Ratings and running times are in parentheses; foreign films have English subtitles. Full reviews of all current releases, movie trailers, showtimes and tickets: nytimes.com/movies. ★ ‘Agora’ (No rating, 2:06) The culture wars in Alexandria, Egypt, in the fourth century A.D. are imagined by the director Alejandro Amenábar and a cast led by Rachel Weisz, [...]
Ben Glass/Warner Brothers Pictures Callan McAuliffe and Madeline Carroll in Rob Reiner’s “Flipped,” adapted from a novel by Wendelin Van Draanen. Suburban America in the late 1950s and early ’60s as depicted in “Flipped,” Rob Reiner’s sentimental ode to puppy love in that innocent era, might as well be another world, for all its resemblance [...]
Antoine Antoniol/Bloomberg News, left; Merrick Morton/Columbia Pictures Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, left, is portrayed by Jesse Eisenberg, right, in “The Social Network.” Mr. Zuckerberg says “the movie is fiction.” LOS ANGELES — At the New York Film Festival next month, Hollywood will unleash “The Social Network,” a biting tale of the Silicon Valley giant Facebook and [...]
WASHINGTON — NASA and U2 released a commemorative video highlighting a year's worth of collaboration in space and on the Irish rock band's 360 Degree tour. U2 approached NASA in 2009 with an idea to include a dialogue between the band and the crew of the International Space Station during U2's world tour. The astronauts [...]
Nevada Film Office Screenwriters Competition Objective: The NFO competition seeks to provide unsold writers an opportunity for recognition and networking with the Hollywood market, and to encourage the creation of scripts specific to Nevada. The small size of the competition improves a writer’s chances of finishing well, and judges usually provide helpful notes and useful [...]
Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp will be back in theaters in December. Sony has given their next film, "The Tourist," a Dec. 10 release date, prime territory for a commercial run extending through the holidays and a possible awards-season bid. Jolie's "Salt," Sony's actioner that has grossed $103.4 million domestically, remains in play in theaters. [...]
"Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" (2010) – Universal Pictures If a movie that looked and sounded like Scott Pilgrim vs. the World had come out 40 years ago, people would have burned the director at the stake for witchcraft. Even by 2010 standards, the way it's written, performed, shot, and edited is supremely unusual, an [...]
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